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here comes a recipe for a cherry cake that is super fast and doesn’t require much besides the cherries. It makes a flat cake the size of a baking sheet, which would feed a crowd – I quartered it and used a small round pan, and it made 6 generous servings. The recipe comes from a German book called Das Backbuch, published in Leipzig in 1967 (yeeeeeeees, really). Anyhoodle, please try this recipe, because it is cherry season after all and isn’t cherry cake the best way to make use of them? So here we go.

Place the crust on your greased baking sheet and distribute it carefully, using your hands or a rolling pin, until the sheet is covered with an even layer of dough (this might take a while, and be sticky). Cover the crust with the cherries and sprinkle